100 Films of Wagnerian Grandiosity, Nietzschean Will-to-Power, Dostoyevskian Mysticism and Baudelarian Evil Delights

By: Sol Niger

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This personal canon has changed over the course of time, but these are the films that stimulate me at the moment.

• 01
  The Dying Swan
  Yevgeni Bauer
• 02
  Faust
  F.W. Murnau
• 03
  Napoleon
  Abel Gance
• 04
  Shanghai Express
  Josef von Sternberg
• 05
  The Bitter Tea of General Yen
  Frank Capra
• 06
  Footlight Parade
  Lloyd Bacon
• 07
  Triumph of the Will
  Leni Riefenstahl
• 08
  The Goddess
  Wu Yonggang
• 09
  The Rules of the Game
  Jean Renoir
• 10
  Fantasia
  James Algar
• 11
  Ivan the Terrible, Part I
  Sergei Eisenstein
• 12
  Ivan the Terrible, Part II
  Sergei Eisenstein
• 13
  Isle of the Dead
  Mark Robson
• 14
  Canyon Passage
  Jacques Tourneur
• 15
  The Red Shoes
  Michael Powell
• 16
  Spring in a Small Town
  Fei Mu
• 17
  The Lusty Men
  Nicholas Ray
• 18
  Angel Face
  Otto Preminger
• 19
  Tokyo Story
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 20
  Ugetsu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 21
  The Naked Spur
  Anthony Mann
• 22
  The Word
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 23
  All That Heaven Allows
  Douglas Sirk
• 24
  House of Bamboo
  Samuel Fuller
• 25
  The Night of the Hunter
  Charles Laughton
• 26
  Kiss Me Deadly
  Robert Aldrich
• 27
  Lola Montès
  Max Ophüls
• 28
  The Searchers
  John Ford
• 29
  The Tiger of Eschnapur
  Fritz Lang
• 30
  The Indian Tomb
  Fritz Lang
• 31
  What's Opera, Doc?
  Chuck Jones
• 32
  Vertigo
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 33
  Touch of Evil
  Orson Welles
• 34
  Some Came Running
  Vincente Minnelli
• 35
  Pickpocket
  Robert Bresson
• 36
  Rio Bravo
  Howard Hawks
• 37
  Ride Lonesome
  Budd Boetticher
• 38
  Day of the Outlaw
  André De Toth
• 39
  India: Matri Bhumi
  Roberto Rossellini
• 40
  Viridiana
  Luis Buñuel
• 41
  The Ladies Man
  Jerry Lewis
• 42
  Cape Fear
  J. Lee Thompson
• 43
  Confessions of an Opium Eater
  Albert Zugsmith
• 44
  The Horrible Dr. Hitchcock
  Riccardo Freda
• 45
  The Sadist
  James Landis
• 46
  The Masque of the Red Death
  Roger Corman
• 47
  Pale Flower
  Masahiro Shinoda
• 48
  Pierrot le fou
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 49
  Kill Baby, Kill!
  Mario Bava
• 50
  Patriotism
  Yukio Mishima
• 51
  The Sword of Doom
  Kihachi Okamoto
• 52
  Le samouraï
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 53
  Point Blank
  John Boorman
• 54
  Playtime
  Jacques Tati
• 55
  Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
  Danièle Huillet
• 56
  Valley of the Bees
  František Vláčil
• 57
  The Great Silence
  Sergio Corbucci
• 58
  Once Upon a Time in the West
  Sergio Leone
• 59
  A Touch of Zen
  King Hu
• 60
  McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  Robert Altman
• 61
  Get Carter
  Mike Hodges
• 62
  Lucifer Rising
  Kenneth Anger
• 63
  Aguirre, the Wrath of God
  Werner Herzog
• 64
  Ludwig
  Luchino Visconti
• 65
  The Outside Man
  Jacques Deray
• 66
  Prime Cut
  Michael Ritchie
• 67
  Messiah of Evil
  Willard Huyck
• 68
  Payday
  Daryl Duke
• 69
  Revolver
  Sergio Sollima
• 70
  Charley Varrick
  Don Siegel
• 71
  Cannibal Man
  Eloy de la Iglesia
• 72
  Electra Glide in Blue
  James William Guercio
• 73
  Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
  Sam Peckinpah
• 74
  Cockfighter
  Monte Hellman
• 75
  Death Wish
  Michael Winner
• 76
  Blood for Dracula
  Paul Morrissey
• 77
  The Passenger
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 78
  Lips of Blood
  Jean Rollin
• 79
  Barry Lyndon
  Stanley Kubrick
• 80
  Taxi Driver
  Martin Scorsese
• 81
  The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
  John Cassavetes
• 82
  The Man Who Fell to Earth
  Nicolas Roeg
• 83
  Sorcerer
  William Friedkin
• 84
  Days of Heaven
  Terrence Malick
• 85
  Stalker
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 86
  Saint Jack
  Peter Bogdanovich
• 87
  Apocalypse Now
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 88
  Don Giovanni
  Joseph Losey
• 89
  Blow Out
  Brian De Palma
• 90
  Possession
  Andrzej Żuławski
• 91
  City of the Living Dead
  Lucio Fulci
• 92
  Parsifal
  Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
• 93
  Tenebrae
  Dario Argento
• 94
  Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 95
  Year of the Dragon
  Michael Cimino
• 96
  Ran
  Akira Kurosawa
• 97
  Combat Shock
  Buddy Giovinazzo
• 98
  The White of the Eye
  Donald Cammell
• 99
  The Quince Tree Sun
  Víctor Erice
• 100
  Light Sleeper
  Paul Schrader
• 101
  Whisper of the Heart
  Yoshifumi Kondô
• 102
  God's Wedding
  João César Monteiro